The Chicago Cubs placed right-hander Marcus Stroman on the injured list without a designation, preventing him from his scheduled start Sunday evening against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Left-hander Justin Steele will get the start for the Cubs on Sunday as they look to avoid a three-game sweep by the Dodgers.

Chicago also optioned first baseman Frank Schwindel to Triple-A Iowa, while right-hander Adrian Sampson had his contract purchased from Iowa.

Stroman (1-3, 5.13 ERA) allowed 13 earned runs over 13 1/3 innings while going 0-2 in his first three starts with Chicago, but he is 1-1 with 1.38 ERA in the past two. He signed a three-year, $71 million deal in the offseason.

The 31-year-old is 62-63 lifetime over 184 appearances (178 starts) in eight seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets and Cubs.

Steele, 26, is 1-3 with a 5.50 ERA in five starts with the Cubs this season. He is 5-7 over two seasons in Chicago with a 4.56 ERA.

Schwindel, 29, was batting .209 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 25 games with the Cubs this season. Sampson, who has not appeared in the major leagues this season, is 7-14 with a 5.16 ERA over four seasons and 51 appearances with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and Cubs.

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Jorge Polanco drove in two runs and five relievers combined for 6 2/3 scoreless innings as the Minnesota Twins completed a three-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 4-3 victory on Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis.

Cody Stashak (3-0) replaced injured starter Chris Paddack in the third inning and tossed 2 2/3 scoreless innings. Twins right-hander Emilio Pagan retired Cristian Pache with runners at second and third in the ninth for his fourth save.

Minnesota has won 14 of its last 17 games, including nine straight at home. Gilberto Celestino recorded the first three-hit game of his career in the victory.

Sean Murphy and Seth Brown had two hits apiece for Oakland, which has lost nine straight games and 12 of its last 14.

Daulton Jefferies (1-5) yielded four runs on seven hits over five innings and lost his fifth straight start. He struck out three with no walks.

Chad Pinder delivered a two-out RBI single off Paddack in the first inning to give Oakland its first lead of the series.

Minnesota pulled even in the second inning when Gary Sanchez hit a leadoff ground-rule double, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on Gio Urshela’s sacrifice fly.

Oakland moved ahead with two runs in the third. Paddack allowed a one-out single to Sheldon Neuse and a Murphy double before exiting the game with right elbow inflammation.

Stashak replaced Paddack and gave up Brown’s two-run double before Pinder and Kevin Smith each flied out to end the inning. Paddack allowed three runs on five hits over 2 1/3 innings. He struck out four with no walks.

The Twins pulled ahead with three runs in the third inning. Jose Miranda doubled in a run off Jefferies with one out before Polanco followed with a two-run single.

Polanco had five hits in the series and is 12-for-35 (.343) with nine RBIs during a nine-game hitting streak.

The A’s were held without a hit after Brown’s two-run single in the third inning before threatening in the ninth. Tony Kemp drew a one-out walk and Christian Bethancourt singled before Pagan retired Elvis Andrus and Pache to end the game.

Minnesota played without outfielder Byron Buxton, who is day-to-day with a hip strain.

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The Miami Marlins placed left-hander Richard Bleier on the injured list for undisclosed reasons and recalled infielder Erik Gonzalez from Triple-A Jacksonville on Sunday.

Bleier, 35, has a 4.15 ERA in 11 relief appearances this season. In seven major league seasons with the New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and Marlins, he is 12-4 with a 3.00 ERA in 264 appearances, all but one of which was in relief.

Gonzalez, 30, was called up to the Marlins for the first time after batting .392 with 13 RBIs for Jacksonville. Gonzalez has six seasons of major league experience, batting .245 with 11 home runs and 74 RBIs over 336 games for Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

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Jake Odorizzi twirled five shutout innings, Aledmys Diaz clubbed a grand slam and the Houston Astros capped a sweep of their seven-game homestand with a 5-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

Alex Bregman slugged his fifth home run of the year and Astros right-handed relievers Cristian Javier and Hector Neris completed the one-hit shutout.

Odorizzi (3-2) needed just 34 pitches to complete one trip through the Detroit lineup. When he ran into trouble with one-out walks to Robbie Grossman and Miguel Cabrera in the fourth, Odorizzi recovered with flyouts off the bats of Jeimer Candelario and Jonathan Schoop.

Odorizzi allowed one hit and two walks while posting five strikeouts to continue what has been an exceptional three-start stretch. He has surrendered one run on six hits and four walks with 12 strikeouts over 17 2/3 innings during that span.

The Tigers started reliever Wily Peralta as the opener for their bullpen day. He scuffled over his two innings yet kept the Astros off the scoreboard despite walking three batters and surrendering a leadoff single to Diaz in the second. Diaz struck a far bigger blow in his second at-bat, driving a 1-0 fastball from Tigers right-hander Drew Hutchinson (0-3) out to left-center.

Hutchinson surrendered a leadoff single to Jose Altuve before issuing walks to Bregman and Yordan Alvarez with one out. Hutchinson rallied to strike out Kyle Tucker but Diaz followed with his second home run this season and third career grand slam as Houston took a 4-0 lead.

Bregman followed with his solo shot in the fifth inning off Tigers right-hander Joe Jimenez.

Per Elias Sports Bureau, the Astros completed a homestand of at least seven games unbeaten for the first time since May 2003, when they swept the Florida Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates in succession. Houston blanked the Seattle Mariners twice before winning the finale of that three-game series 7-2 on May 4.

The Tigers mustered only six runs while dropping all four games of this weekend series. They finished 1-for-30 with runners in scoring position in the series.

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The Los Angeles Angels placed infielder David Fletcher on the 10-day injured list, one of a series of Sunday transactions.

Fletcher, 27, has a left hip strain. He is batting .158 with two RBIs in 14 games this season.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Fletcher will see a specialist in Philadelphia on Monday and surgery apparently is “on the table.”

Infielder/outfielder Jose Rojas also landed on the injured list with no injury designation, which generally indicates COVID-19.

Rojas, 29, is batting .130 with one RBI in seven games with the Angels this season.

The team also recalled infielder Luis Rengifo from Triple-A Salt Lake, selected the contract of outfielder Aaron Whitefield from Double-A Rocket City and optioned left-hander Kenny Rosenberg to Salt Lake.

Rengifo, 25, is batting .313 with four homers and 15 RBIs in 24 games at Salt Lake.

Whitefield, 25, is hitting .301 with five homers, 17 RBIs and 13 stolen bases in 24 games at Rocket City.

Rosenberg, 26, made his MLB debut on April 18 and allowed one run on two hits in one inning of relief at Houston.

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Light-hitting outfielder Oscar Mercado drove in the go-ahead run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

The Guardians reached the .500 mark by winning their seventh game in the past nine contests. They won three of four games in the series.

Cleveland pushed across two runs in the eighth inning, which started with a solo home run by second baseman Owen Miller to the left-field bleachers off reliever Tim Mayza. It was his third home run of the season.

Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo brought in reliever Adam Cimber to face the red-hot Franmil Reyes, who lined a single to left.

Cimber (4-2) allowed his first walk of the season to Andres Gimenez, setting the stage for Mercado. He is batting just .191, yet drilled a single into center field, which drove home Reyes with the winning run.

Reyes was 3-for-4 on the day.

Closer Emmanuel Clase recorded his sixth save with a scoreless ninth inning.

Set-up man Bryan Shaw (1-0) earned the victory with a hitless eighth inning for the Guardians.

Toronto snapped a 2-2 tie in the seventh. Santiago Espinal led off the inning with a double down the right-field line. He moved to third on a fly ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by George Springer for a 3-2 lead.

Right-hander Eli Morgan pitched 3 1/3 innings of solid relief. He allowed just one hit — Espinal’s 10th double of the season — one run and no walks. He struck out three.

The Blue Jays jumped on rookie Konnor Pilkington, making his first major league start, for two runs in the top of the first inning.

The big hit was a two-run single by Teoscar Hernandez that drove in Springer and Bo Bichette for a 2-0 advantage.

Cleveland got to Toronto starter Alek Manoah in the third. Steven Kwan blooped a double down the right-field line and scored on a triple by Jose Ramirez. Ramirez is leading the majors with 30 RBIs.

Miller knocked in the Guardians’ second run with a sacrifice fly.

Both starting pitchers left with no-decisions. Pilkington, called up from Triple-A Columbus to make the start, pitched 3 2/3 innings and allowed three hits, two runs and three walks. He struck out six batters.

Manoah pitched five innings and allowed five hits, two runs and one walk. He struck out three. He threw 95 pitches, 61 for strikes.

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Charlie Morton rediscovered his form with five shutout innings and William Contreras drove in four runs to spark the Atlanta Braves to a 9-2 win over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday.

It was only the second series win of the season for the Braves, who improved their record in day games to 3-8.

Morton (2-3) broke a three-game losing streak. He allowed only two hits, walked three and struck out five. The veteran had allowed 17 runs (16 earned) over 18 1/3 innings in his previous four starts. It was his first win over Milwaukee since Sept. 11, 2015, when he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Contreras drove in one run with a bases-loaded walk in the second inning and hit a three-run homer, his third, to left-center in the fifth inning that put the game away.

The losing pitcher was Aaron Ashby (0-3), who pitched four innings and allowed six runs on six hits, four walks and three strikeouts. He also had a wild pitch and committed an error. Ashby’s ERA soared from 2.33 to 4.24.

Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. was 2-for-4 with a double, one RBI and one run scored.

Acuna singled to open the game and extended his streak of reaching base to 23 straight games, the longest in the National League. Acuna’s streak goes back to June 25, when he suffered a season-ending knee injury. He has reached safely in all nine games played this year.

The Braves scored four times in the second inning. After Contreras walked with the bases loaded, the Braves scored on Acuna’s fielder’s choice and Matt Olson’s two-run double.

Atlanta made it 5-0 on Adam Duvall’s solo homer, his second, in the third and struck again for a run in the fourth when Dansby Swanson scored on a wild pitch.

Milwaukee scored twice against reliever Tyler Matzek in the eighth inning. Pinch-hitter Michael Brosseau had an RBI single and the Brewers scored again when Christian Yelich grounded into a double play.

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Colin Moran victimized his former team for a go-ahead grand slam and a two-run homer to rally the Cincinnati Reds past the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Sunday afternoon.

Down 2-0 entering the sixth inning, Moran’s grand slam came two batters after Tommy Pham worked a bases-loaded walk. It was the fifth bases-loaded home run of his career.

The come-from-behind victory gave Cincinnati its first series win in nine tries. The Reds split their season-opening series then lost their last seven series before taking two of three from Pittsburgh. It was Cincinnati’s third win in 24 games.

Moran followed up his sixth inning slam with a two-run homer in the eighth to give him a career-high six RBIs.

Michael Perez and Bryan Reynolds hit home runs for the Pirates, who ended their five-game road trip with a 2-3 mark and lost for the eighth time in 11 games.

Right-hander Art Warren (1-1) entered in the sixth for the Reds and pitched two scoreless innings for the second win by a Reds reliever this season.

The Pirates managed just one hit off Reds starter Tyler Mahle in five innings, but it was a big one. After a leadoff walk to Yoshi Tsutsugo in the second inning, Mahle retired the next two batters. Perez then ended a nine-pitch battle by driving a 94-mph fastball to the seats in right-center for a 2-0 Pittsburgh lead.

Perez was playing his first game since being promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis after Roberto Perez (hamstring) went on the injured list after he was hurt in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.

Mahle was pulled after five innings and 106 pitches, keeping the Reds as the only team in the major leagues without a starter to go at least six innings this season. The right-hander struck out six while walking three.

Pirates starter Zach Thompson also was effective. He allowed just two hits while striking out six over five shutout innings with no walks. Still Pirates manager Derek Shelton chose to pull his starter after only 79 pitches.

Shelton went to lefty Dillon Peters (3-1), who had not allowed a run in 16 2/3 innings this season. The reliever, who didn’t allow a hit in the first 21 batters faced this season, yielded a bloop hit to right to Brandon Drury, and then walked the next three batters to force in the Reds’ first run. Peters did not retire a batter before Shelton went to former Reds closer Heath Hembree.

Hembree was brought on to face the bases loaded, none out jam and promptly struck out Kyle Farmer. But Moran drilled a 92-mph fastball into the seats in right for Cincinnati’s first grand slam this season.

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Gleyber Torres homered to lead off the ninth inning, lifting the New York Yankees to a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in the opener of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.

Torres won it when he hit a 3-1 sinker from John King (1-1) into the right-field seats. The home run gave the Yankees their 12th win in 13 games.

New York ace Gerrit Cole allowed a run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out 10, walked one and threw a season-high 114 pitches.

Cole allowed three hits in the first two innings, when he threw 47 pitches. After allowing his only walk, Cole retired 14 of 15 hitters before Kole Calhoun homered in the seventh.

Texas’ Dane Dunning took a no-hitter into the sixth and wound up allowing one run and two hits in six innings. He struck out five, walked three and did not throw any of his 100 pitches over 90.8 mph.

Calhoun ended Cole’s bid for a third straight scoreless start when he lined a full-count 97.6 mph fastball to the short porch and just inside the foul line with one out in the seventh. It was the only fastball Cole threw in the inning.

Jonathan Loáisiga followed Cole with 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the Yankees, and Clay Holmes (3-0) stranded Mitch Garver in the ninth before Torres came through.

Dunning lost his no-bid in the sixth, on his 86th pitch, when Aaron Judge hit an infield single to third baseman Brad Miller and easily beat the throw. Anthony Rizzo’s single moved Judge to third, and Giancarlo Stanton’s fly ball to left gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead.

Before getting the first hit, the Yankees couldn’t capitalize on two errors in the fifth.

Joey Gallo reached when first baseman Andy Ibáñez committed a throwing error on the toss to Dunning. Three batters later, Kyle Higashioka reached when Miller bobbled his grounder on a ball that slightly hopped up on him, but Dunning struck out Aaron Hicks to end the inning.

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Michael Taylor’s RBI single in the ninth inning was the difference as the Kansas City Royals beat the host Baltimore Orioles 6-4 in the opener of a Mother’s Day doubleheader on Sunday.

Taylor’s single to left field off Baltimore’s Jorge Lopez with two outs scored Nicky Lopez with the go-ahead run. Salvador Perez’s single to right field off Cionel Perez then scored Taylor, padding the lead for Kansas City.

Taylor Clarke and Scott Barlow combined for two shutout innings to close the game for the Royals.

Jordan Lyles started on the mound for the Orioles, allowing seven hits and three earned runs while striking out five in 7 1/3 innings. He notched the 900th strikeout of his career in the first inning when he got Edward Olivares to swing and miss on a high fastball.

Olivares fared better in his next at-bat, though, singling to center to score Kyle Isbel in the top of the third, tying the game at 1-1. Cedric Mullins had driven in Jorge Mateo in the bottom of the second to open the scoring for Baltimore.

The Royals continued to score in the fifth inning when Nicky Lopez hit into a fielder’s choice that was bungled by the Orioles. Ryan Mountcastle made a nice pick on the ground ball but rifled his throw into Isbel’s helmet. The error paved the way for Bobby Witt Jr. to score. Andrew Benintendi then hit a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Isbel to give the Royals a 3-1 lead.

Zack Greinke got the start for the Royals, striking out three while allowing 10 hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings. Greinke (0-2) is winless in six starts this season.

Mountcastle doubled off Greinke in the bottom of the fifth, scoring Austin Hays and cutting the Royals’ lead to 3-2. When the ball left Mountcastle’s bat, many thought it was a home run. The ball banged off the top of Camden Yards’ new left-field wall and bounced back into play.

The Orioles briefly led 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh, after Rougned Odor’s double scored Mountcastle and Hays. The Royals responded a half-inning later with Benintendi scoring on Ryan O’Hearn’s sacrifice fly.

Hays went 4-of-4 and is 9-of-15 in his last four games. It was his ninth multi-hit game of the season.

–Field Level Media